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 From: kibi@debian.org 
  
 Roland Clobus  (2025-08-29): 
 > I'm wondering whether the fakeroot package is actually required. 
 > As I wrote in the initial text, I did not need to have fakeroot available, 
 > and could prevent calls to fakeroot by setting the environment variable 
 > ROOTCMD to a space (as an empty value would still set it to 'fakeroot'). 
 > 
 > As I understand it, invoking 'chroot' requires being root (it is in 
 > /usr/sbin), so within the chroot-environment one is already root and 
 > therefore does not need fakeroot on top. 
 > But there might be some scenarios, that I'm unaware of, that invoke the 
 > scripts of the installer differently and therefore the package fakeroot is 
 > indeed a requirement. 
  
 I'll let Jochen comment on that, who's apparently more familiar with 
 those things than I am. Speaking of which, the initial R€€ addition 
 (which is modified by !68) happened by applying a suggestion from Niels. 
  
 > I'm also wondering whether !68 is still required, given that fakeroot 
 > has been added as a dependency about 2 weeks ago. Is the MR based on 
 > work that started earlier? 
  
 If you look at timestamps, you'll see there are just a few hours between 
 my commits and Jochen's, so presumably some work was being staged. 
  
  
 Cheers, 
 -- 
 Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)             
 D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant 
  
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